Convert .doc to pdf in ruby

Ruby
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Hi all,

Any one have any idea, how to convert .doc to pdf in ruby?

Is there any converter libs are available in Ruby?

Thanks,
Anil

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I doubt it. Generally the best way to convert anything to PDF is to
pass it through a “fake printer”, like Bullzip PDF Printer. This could
probably somehow be done programatically.

– Matma R.

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Does this help?
http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/1296459

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I recently authored a blog post, including Ruby sample code, to
demonstrate how to convert to and from common file formats (including
DOC and PDF) using a third party product.

For details see this post:
http://blog.muhimbi.com/2013/03/use-ruby-on-rails-to-convert-merge-and.html

Massive disclaimer! I worked on this product so I am obviously biased.

5

Doh!

I recently added that intro and, contrary to the rest of the post, I did
not spell-check it. Its fixed now, thank you so much.

I am aware of the irony of having the guide in MS-Word format, but that
is a great test document for the converter :slight_smile:

Some of the people I deal with like to copy parts of our documentation
into their own. MS-Word is more suitable than PDF to do this.

I have made a note to publish them in both Word and PDF formats the next
time an update is released.

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Jeroen R. wrote in post #1100557:

Use Ruby (on Rails) to Convert, Merge and Watermark HTML & Office files to PDF

Looks interesting, there seems to be a lot of demand for pdf file
conversions.

You might want to change “Read on the learn more” to “Read on to learn
more” on that page. And it’s a bit ironic that the Developer Guide is
only available in MS-Word format :slight_smile:

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You can see pandoc(Pandoc - index) and pandoc ruby
gem(
GitHub - xwmx/pandoc-ruby: Ruby wrapper for Pandoc).

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On Aug 25, 2013, at 11:59 PM, Sangil J. [email protected] wrote:

You can see pandoc(Pandoc - index) and pandoc ruby
gem(GitHub - xwmx/pandoc-ruby: Ruby wrapper for Pandoc).

Neither Word’s .DOCX nor .PDF are pandoc input formats according to the
docs.

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if your on windows, you may be able to use the ole library, to save as
pdf from word…

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Quickly and convert .doc to PDF file format, you can use third-party
software Kernel for Word to PDF Converter Tool, It can simply convert
large and multiple word file to PDF file format without any issue.
Reference link :http://www.wordtopdfonline.net